Tax on Indian casino profits eyed by House Republicans
House Ways and Means Committee plans a tax on earnings from American Indian casinos as part of a package of two dozen tax changes to raise about 30 billion dollars over seven years. The proposal would tax tribal chartered businesses like nonprofits. critics call it outrageous while tribes protest funding cuts and seek income.
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House
Ways and Means Committee
Treasury Department
Nesses
Virginia Boyan
Congress
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Washington
Clinton
Sen
Kent Conrad
D-N.c
Scott Brender
France tightens drunken driving law sets 0.065 percent limit
Paris reports a new French limit of 0.065 percent BAC, down from 0.7, with punishment including fines of 180 dollars and three license points. Officials say the rule aims to cut crashes, but many Parisians defend the bon vivant lifestyle.
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Burgundy
Sacre Bleu
Dominique LeValle
Versailles
United States
France
Europe
Transportation Ministry
Guy-Paul Partouche
Franck Tardivat
European Union
Tardival
KU master plan eyed future campus with road revamps
The 88 page master plan draft plus a 66 page transport plan propose closing Jayhawk Boulevard to private vehicles, making it bus only west to east, narrowing the street for sidewalks and a bicycle path, and adding green space. It calls for West Campus academic and research expansion, five new road twists linking Crestline Road to Constant Avenue and Kasold Drive, and a park and ride at the Lied Center costing 1 to 1.3 million annually. Demolition of annexes to free space and preserve green areas around Strong Hall and Campanile Hill are noted, while Prairie Acre's landscape value requires review. EU officials cite many meetings but faculty and student governance leaders have not seen the drafts, and administrators have told consultants not to speak to reporters.
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Crestline Road
23Nd Street
Constant Avenue
Lied Center
Kasold Drive
15Th Street
Lawrence Avenue
BRW Inc
Minneapolis
Hurricane Marilyn pounds Caribbean and Virgin Islands
Hurricane Marilyn with 100 mph winds and 12 foot waves battered the Caribbean and Virgin Islands on Friday. Residents in St. Croix reported damaged roofs and a toppled radio tower as the storm crossed St. Croix and moved toward eastern Puerto Rico. Officials described near total devastation in some areas and warned of widespread flooding and power outages.
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U.S. Virgin Islands
Virgin Islands
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Caribbean
St. Croix
Luis
Puerto Rico
Culebra
Vieques
San Juan
WSTX
Roy L. Schneider
Wsta 1000
St. Thomas
Herb Schoenbaum
Kenneth E. Mapp
Dominica
KU Students Lobby Meyers on Education Priorities
KU students met Meyers Legislative Awareness Board calling the session informative. They urged her to back education as a priority and argued that cutting student aid would hit low income families hardest. Meyers warned reductions were modest but predicted loans and Pell Grants funding would stay near current levels amid deficit reductions.
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Legislative Awareness Board
Washington
Stevens
Meyers
Approval nears on welfare reform
The Senate advanced bipartisanship toward early next week passage of a welfare reform bill. Republicans defeated Democratic attempts to permit state child vouchers for families cut off by new five year limits and blocked Gramm amendments. An agreement would add 3 billion for child care, create a 1 billion contingency fund, and let governors exempt 20 percent of recipients from time limits.
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Senate
Phil Gramm
Rtex
Legal Services Corporation
Health and Human Services Department
John Glenn
Ohio
Thomas A. Daschle
D-S.d
Robert
Dole
R-Kan
Daschle
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